But it's promising work, shows the treatment seems at least to be safe, and more research will no doubt follow to clarify this.
Is it common to recover from a spinal cord injury that leads to some sort of paralysis?
I witnessed someone paralyzed from cervical radiculopathy in the neck caused by youthful horseplay. Full recovery within a month. Scared us all when he went limp.
My father broke his Bricial Plexis (the nerves running through your shoulder to your arm). There was an 18 hour surgery to re-trace the path for the nerves to grow. Some nerves made a connection, and he has minimal movement in his fingers. However, most of his arm is still paralyzed.
This statement a specific case is different than the probability of it working in general.
Nobody said otherwise. It's still very true that this treatment only possibly enabled him to stand.
From the article:
>Larger trials will be needed to establish whether the improvements observed in the two individuals in the current study were a result of the treatment.
Stop the immunosuppressant pills and see what happens.